BS: How warm is it where you are?

Subject: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 11:57 AM

The external shade temperature is currently 29.5 Degrees C here on the banks of the Tyne.
That is about average for this time of year.
Made me wonder what other 'Catters are tolerating/enjoying/enduring?

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Alice
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:03 PM

Too hot. Record temperatures. Forest and grass fires.
See thread on "Inconvenient Truth". Wake up, people!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:03 PM

mid to low thirties here in the Coastal Carolinas

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:06 PM

27degrees in sunny Hull.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:07 PM

Yesterday morning I was on the phone with my sister in McMinnville, Oregon, a Willamette Valley town about 50 miles from Portland, where the temperature at 9:00 was already 84 degrees and they expected a high of 100.

Makes me shiver with foreboding.

Yesterday's high in Juneau, Alaska, where I live, was in the low 60s. I don't think I'd survive 'down south' these days.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:10 PM

Yesterday was the one decent day we in the Wash DC area have seen in 3 weeks...temp back up to 86°F today, and to be higher later this week.

Bill's Law of Averages is again proving accurate. We had a pleasant, cool and extended Spring....now we are paying for it.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Alice
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:10 PM

Forgot to report our actual temperatures here in Montana. Daytime 90's and 100's. August is our hot month. Continuing this trend, it will be unbearable.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:16 PM

In the high 70's/ low 80's here. Far too hot for this part of the world (north-east UK) .... particularly at night. I have to admit - it's years since I slept in the nude but its the only way to make the night bearable.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:25 PM

My father remembered in Emporia, Kansas in the 1930s, sleeping in the front yard because they couldn't bear to be inside. Temp stayed above 95° even at night. (no decent electric fans then)...The ice man was VERY popular.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Don Firth
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:43 PM

Seattle. Mid-nineties yesterday. Rather uncomfortably warm. With Puget Sound to the west and Lake Washington to the east, there's plenty of water around to keep the humidity up.

Predicted to be in the high-eighties today. Pretty comfortable right now (9:45 a.m., PDT). 76 degrees.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Mooh
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:44 PM

Well, it was 20C at sun up over Georgian Bay, but by 8am it was 16C. Now that I'm home (2 hours south) it's 22C.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:53 PM

Well here in Oz of course it's a different story, being winter. In the last month or so, temperatures have varied between 2 degrees C at night and about 18-19 on the warmer days. The last couple of weeks it has rained almost every day and the cloud cover means that temperatures don't vary much from day to night - 13-16 during the day and 7-10 minimum at night.

Right now it's 11 degrees C and raining buckets. You would think that this might help break the drought. Unfortunately though, the majority of the rain is falling near the coast, and not much in the catchment area. It's usually like that, and it makes me wish they would build a dam nearer to the coast, to take advantage of all this rain running down the gutters. I was thinking large tanks on top of some of the city buildings would be a good idea too.

Reading all these posts about the really hot weather reminds me what we will be in for in a few months. I find the weather we are having now easier to cope with than extreme heat! Much as I like the long days, warm balmy evenings and the jungle of veges in the garden, I don't look forward to day after day of temperatures in the 30's and 40's combined with high humidity, such as we have in Sydney in summer!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Scoville
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:56 PM

Houston:

It's cool here today because its overcast--86 degrees and 66% humidity (dry by our standards). Normal is about 95. 105+ on the pavement. And we can hit 95% humidity.

Rain doesn't help here. It just makes the humidity worse.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:57 PM

Amos (in San Diego) needs to turn over and brown on the other side now. . .

Texas has cooled a bit, down to the mid-90s after a couple of scorcher weeks.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:58 PM

Highest it's been in SE Wyoming this year is 114 F/45 C!!!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Cats
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 01:22 PM

Last week in Cornwall, it was hotter outside the tropical biome at Eden than it was inside!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 01:25 PM

Official highs all last week around 111 - 113 F (43.9 - 45 C), although only one day I believe was a new record for the date. Up to 117 F (47 C) nearby in a few places.

A weekend of "cool weather" with highs 95 - 98 F (35 - 36.7 C), but the forcast is for more warm stuff for this coming week.

I vaguely recall one year in the late 50s when Wichita was "over 100F" for more than 30 days in a row; but during that spell I don't recall anything over about 105 F (40.6 C).

An equal concern is that although we've had about normal total rainfall it's all come in a few big storms that ran off instead of soaking in. Soil moisture is thus low, and the crops are burning.

John

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: harpmolly
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 01:26 PM

Don: Seattle has been blazing the last few days, hasn't it?

A great time for my shower to suddenly start backing up through the bathroom floor basement drain...

*pacing furiously and muttering under my breath as I wait for my flaky landlady to call & tell me when the plumber will be arriving...GRRRRR!*

Luckily the girls upstairs are very kind and are letting me use their shower. Mr. Rogers would be proud.

Molly
(thanking all the gods it's marginally cooler today...)

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 01:42 PM

It's gotten to 106F here the day before yesterday; 98F yesterday, and it's supposed to hit 97F here today. The humidity stays at less than 25%, averaging around 12%.

("It's 112 degrees, but it's a dry heat, thank God!" "Dry heat my a..., it's 112 degrees!!!")

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 02:12 PM

Its been 33C or 96F for the past couple of days here on southern Vancouver Island, but it is supposed to cool off over the next couple of days to more seasonable temperatures. That's welcomed, because although I don't mind the heat in the day, I hate hot nights. The bush here is really dry, but it usually is this time of year.....same as it ever was.

I can remember times in the 1950's and 60's when the forests were closed regularly to the public nd industry here every summer because of extreme fire hazard. Also hob nailed boots were banned in forested areas because of their danger of producing sparks when walking.

Galiano Island, one of the BC Gulf Islands, has declared a state of emergency because of a, so far, uncontrolled forest fire there. Both my daughters went to film school on Galiano and we got to know a lot of people on the island. Our hearts are going out to George and the rest of the staff and hoping too that the school itself is out of danger soon, courtesy of a lot of valiant people and a few Mars water bombers. Watching the Mars in action is absolutely awesome and its too bad more bombers only carried water.

It reached 40.7 or 104.7F in Cache Creek yesterday, but it is always way warmer in the southern interior of BC. There is a thunderstorm warning for most of the interior so that doesn't bode well re forest fires there either.

Just a regular summer week in BC weather-wise by and large.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: dianavan
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 02:20 PM

Its been in the mid-90's for about a week.

In Vancouver that means most everyone is at the beach. Others are taking refuge in the hockey rinks (especially if they have kids). Luckily, there is a strong NW wind that makes the heat bearable. The air pollution is gross.

I'm getting out of here and heading to my island paradise where I can be near the water.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Tweed
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 02:23 PM

Low overcast sky here in West Palm Beach, with a few flurries mixed with freezing rain. A little unusual for this time of year.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: number 6
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 02:34 PM

relatively warm ... low 20's (celsius) ... but rainy .... rain and rain ... the never ending rain.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: open mike
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 02:50 PM

my computer says it is 97 in the valley below here..a couple degrees cooler in the hills here. yesterday i think it went up to 107 and last night it stayed 100 until midnight when it finally dropped to the low of 72 overnight..107 is the expected high again today...yawn. it is getting tiresome..people's chickens are dying from the heat and power outages are happening cuz so many people are turning on electric fans, a/c, etc.

i have no air conditioner in my house but i do have a fan and i do have a/c in my car...and i do have a pond and creeks in which to dip.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: open mike
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 02:51 PM

W-A-R-M is not the word for it
it is H-O-T , H-O-T, H-O-T

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Don Firth
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 03:16 PM

My sympathies, Molly. I really hate it anytime the plumbing goes ka-fooze!

I just heard that yesterday it was 115^o F. in Pasco, Washington, over in the Tri-Cities area (Hanford is just up the pike a ways). I usta woik in that town!!

I remember it getting up to 105^o F. regularly during the middle and late summer. There was air conditioning everywhere and they would crank it way up. I'd leave the radio station, where the temperature was around 60^o, after my morning shift and walk out into 105^o weather. Then I'd drop into a nearby restaurant for lunch where the inside temperature would by about 60^o. Then back out into the oven, and drive to the nearby Safeway to pick up something to stock the refrigerator in my apartment. In the Safeway, 60^o. Then back outside.

A few little shifts like this and you could start feeling a bit dizzy.

Sure glad I'm not over there now!

Years ago I had a friend, Fred Melberg, who was in forestry when I knew him, but he'd worked in various capacities as a naturalist. For some strange reason, he had occasion to be up in far north Alaska during the winter. He and the party he was with got caught in the middle of nowhere when a storm blew up, and there was no shelter around. So, quick like a bunny, they started packing up snow and built an igloo. Kind of a sloppy one, but it offered them shelter from the ravages of the storm. Inside the igloo, the temperature was about 35^o F. It measured around -50^o outside. Fred had occasion to crawl outside to get something, and as he slithered through the narrow tunnel they had cobbled together, it occurred to him that, between his feet and his head, there was a temperature difference of about 85 degrees.

When he was living in Seattle, he had an interesting pet. A fully-armed skunk. But that's a whole nother story.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: skarpi
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 03:27 PM

Well if you need to cool down ,,, visit us here we havent got the summer
yet .....????'



All the best Skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 03:30 PM

Newton Aycliffe (sort of in the north east UK) Hello Guest.
Bloody sweaty at work. Nice later evening in the garden. Looking forward to rain.
Lord, I'm getting to be a wingebag !!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 03:43 PM

We had a 4 degree frost here overnight and the current temp is 0C!!!
I'd better go and chip out my car so I can get to work.
Roll on summer............
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: kendall
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 04:42 PM

It hasn't hit 100 yet but we still have had record breaking heat.

It's hotter than young love in haying time.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Slag
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 04:52 PM

Warm is a week or two in February. Spring is always a mixed bag of changability often ending in snow or hail in the first week of June then it turns hot. It's been running from 105 to 110 F, for highs around Lake Co. CA, not really unusual for us but every year people act like it's never been that hot before. When I was about seven or eight I remember a two or three day period in So. Cal when it stayed around 117, 118 F. Too bad no one had thought of global warming back then. We could have blamed it on that instead of "nature".

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 05:04 PM

Here in Paris it has been around 33-38,for about 6weeks now.
This is made worse by the high level of pollution.
Two years back 15,000 people died of heat related problems throughout France.A lot of Blah Blah was spouted at the time,and a lot of embarassed faces were seen pontificating on TV.
It's true that so far, there has been an enormous reduction in casualties,but this is due to the awareness of people on the ground,lots of publicity on TV, and the media in general.
The gvt havent been exactly visible so far.No change there then!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Dave Swan
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 05:30 PM

Hotter than a half romanced fox in a forest fire.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Kaleea
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 05:34 PM

I was up in Palm Springs a couple of days ago & it was 120. That's about 40-50* more than I care for. Now in San Diego my thermometer says 91* with 65% humidity & I'm not thrilled.
Amos-did you turn over yet?

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: open mike
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 05:37 PM

slag, you are in lake county?
i am in butte county...
just a couple of counties away,..

the valley heats up when chico is 115, redding
gets 120...the heat rises as if it was in a chimney..

Swan, 1/2 romanced???
well that is better than no romance at all i guess!
a fire buddy of mine got called to Idaho..
and i hear Butte County sent a stirke team out to help
somewhere last night...

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 05:39 PM

Dave Swan, Slag, Open Mike, and I are all sweltering in Northern California. I'm a couple of thousand feet above them, but it still have been darn hot here - over 100 degrees (38 degrees Centigrade) many days over the last week. My mother-in-law lives with us, and she's 91 years old and suffering badly. She hides in the dark in her air-conditioned room much of the day. Our two little dogs keep her company, which helps a lot - but it's still really hard for her. It's hard for us to make sure she eats and drinks enough, too.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 05:50 PM

It has been 8-12 degrees above average in western Colorado since the first of May. For the past month it has been high 90's to mostly over 100 every damn day with little respite, though I am grateful it is still cooling down a little bit at night. This is NOT normal, except for August. I'm with Alice, see the Inconvenient Truth thread and do what you are able.

("It's 112 degrees, but it's a dry heat, thank God!" "Dry heat my a..., it's 112 degrees!!!") That's right, Rapaire!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST,mrdux (at the office)
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 06:28 PM

Right now in Portland, OR, it's a "balmy" 95 degrees (35 C) and climbing -- although I don't think we'll get to 100 today; yesterday it was 101 (38 C). Saturday it was only 93 (33 C), but with 70% humidity (shades of Chicago). Friday it was 104 (40 C). The dogs have been hiding in the basement. We've been hiding with them. They say it should be safe to come out tomorrow. . .

michael

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 06:54 PM

"But it's a dry heat!" is a standing joke in Sacramento. You see it quoted in the newspaper all the time. Just about everybody agrees that Sacramento is miserable during the summer. We don't get it so bad here in the Sierra Foothills, but this last week has been awful.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: MaineDog
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 08:04 PM

The hottest it's been here so far is about 85.
right now its about 69. No need for air conditioners yet. Rockland is another story.
MD, just North of Tenants Harbor

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: kendall
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 09:47 PM

With the dew point in the 60's it's hell here.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:03 PM

In San Francisco of late it's been in the 70's and 80's. Nice, very nice. It's the first time this year I've been able to turn the heater off and wear short sleeves. I wish I were in Florida. Or even Sacramento.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: John O'L
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:08 PM

Here in the Blue Mtns just west of Sydney it should be freezing, but the Spring buds have started to appear.
Someone asked on another thread recently 'where's the global warming?' Well, it's right here.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Bert
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:29 PM

Bleedin' 'taters. In the pot that is, not in the mold.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:52 PM

LOL...El Swanno!

So was it a half-arsed romance?

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Dave Swan
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 11:04 PM

Hi Kat

Well, there's a word other than romance that rings better in that expression (best left on the fireline, I suppose) which usually ends the discussion. Glad you got a chuckle. And it IS that hot.

I was issued new grass gear today (the bright yellow stuff you see firefighters wearing on brush fires) and was reminded of a friend's description of fighting brush fire. He says it's like putting on too many clothes and weeding next to your barbeque on a really hot day. He's right. I far prefer a structure, but we don't get to choose.

D

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Peace
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 01:01 AM

Barely hit 37 degrees here.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST,Al Capone
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 01:03 AM

Matter of fact, it's hot as hell here and the company ain't the best either!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 01:11 AM

I did my main army tour at Yuma Arizona, at the desert environmental test station. For quite a few of our tests, if we didn't get to at least 105F (40.5C) we'd have to wait a day for "better test conditions." We didn't wait out too many days. One particular day when I stood in one spot too long on the blacktop tank test track, I left a rather large puddle where the boot polish melted and ran off my boots. I think the surface temp we measured on the blacktop that day was somewhere around 165F, although the air "shade temp" was only about 108F. Many vehicle surfaces (esp. sheetmetal) would blister your hands if you touched them.

When things started to cool off one fall, and we couldn't get even consistent 100F for testing, they loaded up half of the people and sent them to Wainright Alaska to run winter environmental tests. Up there, -30F (-34C) was considered the maximum temperature at which some of the tests were good, and some of them said they saw "a few days" of -60F.

I was in the middle of an 11 month endurance test on one of my vehicles, so I didn't get to go north. Just a stroke of (BG) bad luck, I guess.

I hadn't paid much attention to the humidity during our past week here, but one of the old newspapers that was still in the bin said that on a day when the high was 111F, the RH was at 87%; so I guess here it's been the heat and the humidity.

One forecaster on TV the other night was claiming that the "average monthly temperature" for every month since May has been at least 10F above the long term average for the month. Since there are several ways they can calculate those averages, and he didn't say which way he used, I'm less than fully impressed; but it does seem that it's been fairly consistently warmer than I remember from my younger lifetime.

John

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Slag
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 01:15 AM

Speaking of Hell, I think I've got you all beat ( one-upsmanship!) I grew up in the welding business in Delano CA. Delano is usually hotter than just about anywhere except Death Valley and Redding on most summer days. So imagine a metal building a blast forge running most of the day, a couples of guys on the big acetylene torches putting hardface on plowshares. Somehow you got used to it. You'd drink a lot of water and take salt tablets. Your clothes stayed dry because the sweat would evaporate so fast that you really didn't see it most of the time. By day's end your boots, pants, shirt would be rimed with salt. I don't believe I could that again and live!!!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Kara
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 03:31 AM

38° in Brittany (France) that C not F, anyway I'm going to the beach.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 03:49 AM

It was 79F in our bedroom last night... and that was me on my own....

Today it's hot enough that my garden is full of painted ladies. Got 7 of 'em sunning themselves right now.
And it's not even 9.00am.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:04 AM

Painted lady count is up to 9 now.. never seen that many single species in one place , it just doesn't tend to happen in the UK.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Scoville
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 09:54 AM

Houston: predicting rain today so it's still cool but 85% humidity, which is still on the low side.

Ask me again in August when we're likely to be back up near/over 100.

My brother (in Virginia) swears he's moving in near his in-laws in Minnesota as soon as he's done with grad school. He says he'll take the winters if he doesn't have to live through 8 months a year of summer.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Flash Company
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 11:07 AM

Pretty hot here in Cheshire, Haven't got the thermometer out but too hot to work on my decking project
No sleeping alone though, as my old idol Ogden Nash put it:-

Love will not wait for cooler weather,
If we must melt, let's melt together!

FC

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST,Desdemona
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 11:24 AM

It's unpleasantly sweltering at about 90 here in central Massachusetts, but I just came home from a few weeks in the UK, where the last week was every bit as bad! It was absolutely shocking: I've spent a good deal of my life in England, and have literally never encountered such unremittingly sunny, hot, sticky, uncomfortable conditions for such an extended period.

T'ain't natural, or even marginally pleasant, to my mind; there's a REASON I travel to the UK in the summer! Add to this the fact that there just aren't the necessary infrastructural weapons (like lots & lots & lots of ice cubes, air conditioning in most public places, etc), and it makes for a pretty uncomfortable state of affairs!

Looking forward to the autumn, or at least a passing thunderstorm...

~D

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: skipy
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 11:26 AM

at this moment 33.3 deg. C
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST,workman
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 11:34 AM

Quite warm here in London

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:16 PM

Warm enough for Max the arthritic cat to throw himself into the pond at least once a week...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:20 PM

Hot enough here to lie down in the shade and die.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:25 PM

The scary thought is that this may be the "good old days".

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: DougR
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:33 PM

The highest we have had so far, 118 degrees. 116 degrees yesterday. Seems a mite cooler today. Probably 115 degrees. All F, of course.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Dave Swan
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 05:28 PM

Slag (whose name now makes sense),

I spent January to July one year working outside in the Scottish highlands, then came back to the States and took work as a welder in Turlock, CA on July 5th. I remember driving to the steelyard and watching a time/temperature sign flickering between 108 and 110. As you say, salt rimed everything. I almost never wore leathers as the occasional dingleberry or welder's tan was preferable to another layer.

I think Delano and Turlock are located on about the same ring of Hell.

D

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 07:26 PM

Here in Indianapolis, it's warm enough that I haven't ordered anything hotter.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Slag
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 07:32 PM

Dave Swan: Yes! You know. I lie not! Indeed the same ring. Well, today is a cool snap. It only got up to 104.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST,Rumncoke
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 07:59 PM

Ah - Painted lady.

Thanks

I saw one on a buddlea - however it is spelt, bush the other day, and meant to look it up as I had not noticed one before.

There are quite a few of the bushes around here - I live in Parkstone, on the ridge above the town of Poole, Dorset, and some days it is hardly possible to see the flowers with the bees and butterflies on them, with more stacked up waiting to land all around.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 01:46 AM

55 night highs low 70's day.

However, inland, less ten miles can be 105.

VERY Enjoyable summer. One of the best ever. A shame to leave Shangralai to sup at the coiffers of filty lucre.

But the Kitty must be fed.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 01:50 AM

Horrible shame - passing through London - (second time since Simon and Garfunkle in the park) and the ROYAL gardens are brown and the zoo has a model display of succulents. They are encouraging Londoner's to forget their pansies and geraniums.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 01:11 PM

I watered the geranium only this morning... with it's customary 'die you scabby little basket' greeting. It loves it. The bloody thing is 3ft tall and won't stop growing.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 01:11 PM

The Pansie is on holiday for another 3 weeks, to everyones delight.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 03:29 PM

Too bloody hot!!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 03:31 PM

It's about 70F, with a very nice breeze.



From the ceiling fan. If I went outside I'd find it about 90F.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 04:39 PM

Our bedroom is presently 85F... that's going to be pleasant.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST,Bruce Baillie
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 06:03 PM

...well it's too fucking hot for me in Cleckheaton!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 06:17 PM

I was in an office in that Germany yesterday with a thermomity that recorded 37 degrees at 4pm. That, my friends, was nothing compared to the holding pens in the shed at Neiderrhein airport, and the plane was ........... late.

Ryanair, you gotta love 'em.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 02:23 AM

Yesterday's papers report a confirmed sighting of a shoal of Sun Fish
off the British Coast. This is believed to be unprecedented.
Temperature up here on the N.E. coast of England a refreshingly cool 22.5 degrees C.
However it is only 7:20 A.M.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Scoville
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 12:53 PM

Liz--plant it for shade! Put that sucker to work if it refuses to die for you. I don't think I've ever seen a three-foot geranium.

We can't win here--it's either 100 degrees and dry, or it's 85 degrees, raining, and everything floods. And it's 90% humidity today. My best friend emailed from Tucson complaining that it was 25% humidity and she was "drowning" and I was forced to tell her to go to Hell.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 02:44 PM

Hey! My cherry tomatoes are starting to get a blush. Thank you global warming!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 05:45 PM

Hot enough to do this

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 09:16 PM

Thash funny. I posted in response to Clinton's shaved head- and it disappeared (the post, not the head). Have I undergone silent deletion?

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: bobad
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 09:20 PM

What is the meaning of that symbol on your t-shirt Clinton?

I hope you haven't joined some sect or something.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 09:24 PM

No. He's more into sects.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 11:33 PM

" I hope you haven't joined some sect"

You have to be invited to join The Corps

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Keef
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 01:37 AM

Same story from everywhere, more extreme weather, record sales and usage of air conditioners leading to record electricity demand...leading to more power stations... burning more coal..aargh!
And then there's the nuclear option just in case we haven't phucked up the planet enough yet.
Now here's the strange thing, Sanyo, Sanwa et all can churn out airconditioners at incredibly low prices but can't get their shit together to produce solar panels at a sensible price.
Computers and all the electronic goodies have improved in price/performance by a thousandfold and more but somehow the much simpler technology of solar voltaic has gone nowhere.
Solar radiation is highest at the same time aircon need is greatest so no need for expensive batteries, just need solar electricity for 10 Cents per watt rating instead of the $10 per watt we have been stuck on forever.
Will it ever happen?
I doubt it

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 03:36 PM

So why can't we get solar powered air conditioning units/fans?

83 degrees here today in the back room....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Alice
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 10:08 PM

LTS, solar powered air conditioning does exist.

http://www.solarac.com/

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Mr Red
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 03:25 AM

38C / 100F in my office one day. Aren't mobile phone wonderful these days - mine even has an alarm which woke me at 6am to get from Warwick to work Monday morning - and I use it occasionally to make calls - super..........

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Keef
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 06:39 AM

Solarac looks interesting Alice but at $7000 (after state rebates)plus installation it is about 4 times the price of the air conditioner that it would run.
Needs to be a huge price improvement before it will be taken up in serious numbers.
Compared to the improvements made in other electronic gizmos,solar is still in the stone age.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 07:37 AM

And the shipping and conversion to UK would be pricey too.... I just want a fan that I can plug into a socket that is run by solar power.. that would be so simple. The sun is shining so the fan is on. Store a bit for night time and it would be perfect.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Mr Red
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 08:26 AM

Well call me a poser if you want but I have had a hat like that for 6 years - and it's red. I got it from the Machynlleth Alternative energy centre CAT, which makes it a hat in the CAT I guess.

And I can even pronounce Machynlleth

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Alice
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 01:47 PM

solarac.com - system sends power back to the utility most months of the year, when you are not using the electricity for your air conditioning. So, you are reducing your electic bill overall.

Solar powered fans - you can get a small one that fits in your car window to cool the car while it is parked in the sun. You can buy a cap with a little solar panel in it that runs a fan to cool your head.... or, you can get an attic fan that has roof top solar panel to cool your house, or use it in your RV.

http://www.advancedenergyonline.com/catalog/applications/fans.htm (can order from outside the US, too)

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: michaelr
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 05:14 PM

Santa Rosa (Northern California), 2 pm: 72 degrees in the shade.
A week ago: 102 degrees. Phew!

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Peace
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 05:22 PM

It is 59 degrees F in north central Alberta. May have to wear a jacket over the t-shirt soon. Or go to a long-sleeved shirt.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST,Noddy
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 06:01 PM

Hot enough for June!!!???

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 06:18 PM

Troy Fair, Troy Pennsylvania, 3:30pm, 100 degrees fahrenheit (with an occasional lovely breeze)!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Peace
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 06:30 PM

"Hot enough for June!!!???"

Is it June already?

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Hrothgar
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 06:09 AM

About 23 degrees Celsius maximum here today - that's about 73 Fahrenheit.

Another Brisbane winter day ...

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 09:44 AM

A lovely summer morning here on the wet coast of Canada. Its around 6:30AM and 10C or about 52F and its raining. Yeah!!! Our very hot spell was short lived, it only lasted about 3 days.

The rain is welcome though. I hope it does more than just settle the dust, because my apple trees are very thirsty. While I have no qualms about watering the rest of the garden with our precious well water, I'd prefer not to have to use it on the fruit trees too. The real rains of November are still a long ways off.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 10:41 AM

hotter & hotter & hotter here in the Wash DC area...we are expecting 4 days of nearly 100°F, and we get high humidity to boot.

(and *grin*...JUST as I typed the above, my weather program popped up this alert)
HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS EXPECTED TO LAST INTO THURSDAY. EXCESSIVE HEAT CONDITIONS ARE LIKELY ALONG AND EAST OF THE BLUE RIDGE...ESPECIALLY IN THE BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON DC URBAN AREAS.

HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL BE AROUND 100 DEGREES TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. THIS WHEN COMBINED WITH HIGH RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL RESULT IN HEAT INDEX VALUES OF UP TO 110 ESPECIALLY TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. THE EXCESSIVE HEAT MAY PERSIST INTO THURSDAY.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 11:32 AM

Here in my part of chilly Sydney, it's 4.5 degeees C - about 40 degrees F. A long way off the 100 degrees some of you are having.

But it's not a long way off post number 100. hahahahaha!!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Don Firth
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 03:06 PM

Some cynic (realist?) once commented, "We won't have solar power until they figure out how to run a sunbeam through a meter."

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Scoville
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 05:10 PM

Ha ha! Probably true, Don.

97 on the way home from meeting. Ah, we're back were we're supposed to be . . .

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 05:13 PM

Bedroom was a comfy 71 at 5.oopm... Now it's bed time and it's nearly 80. Thought evenings were supposed to be cooler ~ and no, it doesn't face west.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Alice
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 09:11 AM

Checked my apple tree last night and the leaves were crinkled and shriveling. Got the hose on it right away. Hope it survives.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: nutty
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 09:21 AM

It's cooler here today - thank God.
Quite a stiff breeze coming off the sea and it's threatening to rain. Still in the 70's in the shade but for the first time for weeks I'm actually getting fresh air in the house without resorting to artificial means.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 May 20 - 06:38 PM

ARE there solar-powered refrigerated-air-conditioners actually?

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 May 20 - 07:55 PM

Probably not... Makes too much sense.

Close to 80°F/27°C with tornado warning here in Charlottesville, VA, USA.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 May 20 - 08:14 PM

Interesting to read here of the conditions in 2006 in the UK. That was an exceptional summer, one of the warmest ever recorded. It was also very dry here in Cornwall; we had just four inches of rain in four months.

We've had more than our usual share of good, or at at least half-decent, summers since then. We've also had a run of very mild winters. This spring in England has been exceptionally dry and sunny. The wind has been in the east at times, which pegs temperatures back. But overall it's going to go down as a vintage spring. I have a deep Mediterranean tan already, and that's just from doing the gardening...

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 23 May 20 - 02:04 AM

I love heat, any amount of it. I must be a lizard or something!
It was 25C yesterday, and I sat on The Bench out the front in full sunshine in a cardigan. The oil tanker arrived and the oil man was perspiring like a fountain, poor bloke. He couldn't believe I had a woolly on. He filled our tank (we kept well away from each other) and I put an ice-cold can of Diet Coke from my husband's stash in the fridge on the pavement for him. He gulped it down thankfully. I had a nice hot cup of tea after he'd left!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 May 20 - 06:17 AM

Central heating on here today, as it's cold wet and windy in the highlands today. 10C, it must be nearly June.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 May 20 - 08:30 PM

It isn't just that people are itching to get out of the house:
here in Massachusetts, where the restrictions have been eased,
people are looking for lakes to swim in
because it's baking hot in the sunshine.

No miserable humidity, though --
that will come along soon enough.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 25 May 20 - 09:39 AM

In Stratford, Ontario, it snowed two weeks ago, I finally turned off the furnace last week, and on Saturday the air-conditioner kicked on for the first time. The electric fans are out of winter storage in the interest of less-sweaty sleep.

Yesterday, I sweated buckets while transplanting a couple of hosta and desultorily pulling a few weeds. We have now officially entered Beer On The Porch season.

Next: killer humidity, and the pong of pig-farming when the wind is in the wrong quarter, which is most of them.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Neil D
Date: 26 May 20 - 08:12 PM

It was 89F (32C) today. Less than 2 weeks ago we had snow on the ground. There was a day last week where we had a morning frost and then it went up to 70. Here in Ohio we say "If you don't like the weather just hang around because it is sure to change.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Senoufou
Date: 27 May 20 - 03:34 AM

It's usually around 90F (mid thirties C) in Abidjan. My in-laws are quite used to this, including the high humidity. Occasionally the Harmattan (seasonal wind) blows and it gets what they call 'a bit chilly' (about 80F)
When husband visits them, he's sweltering for the first few days and panting for breath, but then he acclimatises. When he gets back to UK he's shivering at first and wears his woolly jumper for a bit!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 May 20 - 05:50 PM

The cicadas, both annual and periodic, are cold-blooded.
They can only sing and propagate their species
when they are warmed up by the sun.
It's cicada season in certain spots.

Not warm here at all, though; you?

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Jun 20 - 11:10 AM

It might warm up tomorrow, but
for now it feels like late April.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jun 20 - 07:37 PM

well, it is warmER, anyway,
and soon enough the heat and humidity
will make me nostalgic for
the cool spell we had this week.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Jun 20 - 08:32 AM

When I lived in Abidjan it never got below the *high* 80's. I would wear a sweater.

It didn't get above the mid-90's usually either. But go inland, even Korhogo, aand it got a LOT hotter. Aah, it was nice.

Going even farther inland and it got dry, and even hotter, wow.

Now I have broken down and put on the AC in my bedroom, so the rest of my house is really hot in comparison. Summer is approaching Charlottesville. One of the main reasons I like it here is that it never got hot enough, or humid enough, for my preferences, when I lived in the Boston area. Aaah. High heat and high humidity. Now if only I could go to the beach!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 05 Jun 20 - 10:25 AM

I must be a boreal creature because I loathe hot weather; my pale, fragile skin breaks out in a prickly rash except in the corners where the eczema runs riot, and my respiratory system goes all asthmatic and hostile.

Southern Ontario can get quite spectacularly hot, but never for long; within a few days, an equally spectacular thunderstorm will brew up, the world explodes with racket and rain, and the day after is fresh and about five degrees (Celsius) cooler, if not more. In Stratford, the extreme heat is an inconvenience; in Toronto, full as it is of stinking, belching motor vehicles, it's utter misery.

Today, the sky is clear, the air is still, and a gentle pong of pig manure permeates the area. Environment Canada is pretty sure we will have a thunderstorm before the day is out, and my aching feet tend to agree.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 05 Jun 20 - 11:15 AM

Charmion also hates cold weather, which means life is not as easy for her as it is for the rest of us in Ontario.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Charmion
Date: 05 Jun 20 - 12:25 PM

Life got easier when I decamped to Perth County, brother dear. Winter as you know it in Ottawa hardly ever happens here, and we have magnolias and azaleas all over the place to prove it.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jun 20 - 01:46 PM

Where in Boston Mrzzy? Chestnut Hill, Jamaica Plain, Dedham, Dorchester beach?

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jun 20 - 02:56 PM

Donuel, Mrrzy will correct me if I'm wrong,
and I hope I'm using the right non-binary pronoun here,
but -- they -- were at Tufts Medical School, I believe.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jun 20 - 04:52 PM

No wonder he gets my "jokes".

I don't do the non binary crap, I am barely analog let alone digital.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jun 20 - 06:04 PM

the biggest storm o the season is coming to the east coast.
a gulf tropical storm combines with a storm from the north and hits head on. this is going to surprise everyone except those who can see the gulf from space.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jun 20 - 06:12 PM

heads up thurs-sat

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jun 20 - 08:06 AM

It happens but a Pacific born storm will hit the the US smack dab in the middle As a result it was given a New name Cristobal.